Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- California Northeastern Railway records
- Dates:
- 1905-1911
- Abstract:
- This collection includes canceled checks and monthly statements for 1905 to 1906 from Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank and a general account with the Southern Pacific Company (form 143).
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Feet 1 record carton
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], California Northeastern Railway Records, MS 113, California State Railroad Museum Libary & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes canceled checks and monthly statements for 1905 to 1906 from Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank and a general account with the Southern Pacific Company (form 143).
- Biographical / historical:
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The California Northeastern Railway, incorporated July 6, 1905, was controlled by the Southern Pacific Company, and sold December 18, 1911, to the Oregon Eastern. It owned on date of sale 86.10 miles of track between Weed, California and Klamath Falls, Oregon, built during the period September, 1906, to May, 1909, of which the twenty-two miles from Weed to Grass Lake had been acquired through reconstruction in 1905 and 1906 of a logging road purchased July 29, 1905, from the Weed Lumber Company, originally built in period 1903-1905. The additional sixty-four miles of CNE from Grass Lake to Klamath Falls were built in 1907, 1908 and 1909.
[Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), pp. 394-395]
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of the Southern Pacific Company.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collections Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-05-05 22:02:42 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff for details
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], California Northeastern Railway Records, MS 113, California State Railroad Museum Libary & Archives, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073